Ahmad Shah Baba International Airport, also referred to as Kandahar International Airport, and by some military officials as Kandahar Airfield, is located in the Daman District of Kandahar Province in
Photos captured during NATO's control
The airport was designed by American engineers in the early 1960s
Aerial view of the airport in 2005
Night view of the airport in 2007
Indian Airlines Flight 814
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Indian Airlines Flight 814, commonly known as IC 814, was an Indian Airlines Airbus A300 that was hijacked on 24 December 1999 by five members of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. The passenger flight, en route f
Kandahar International Airport
…commanders took control of the airport until the American invasion in late 2001. It was also the site of Airstan incident in 1995, as well as the Indian Airlines Flight 814 incident in 1999. Since 2007, the airport has been repaired and expanded. Its runway can support all types of aircraft, including a Boeing C-17 Globemaster…
The hijacked plane at Kandahar with Taliban men in the foreground
The aircraft involved, VT-EDW, seen a few days after the hijacking